I know we had a little SMT fanclub going here the last time I was around, so I'm kinda wondering why I can't find a thread about the newest SMT: Persona title here yet.
Short and sweet, Persona 4 cashes in on everything people loved about Persona 3, refines them and new treats are thrown in for good measure. It's an awesome game, and if you loved the previous game you owe it to yourself to grab a copy of this one.
Of the more notable features, you can give direct commands to your party now. Also, by pressing the square button you get a list of local areas in the map you can teleport instantly to. No more walking around unnecessarily. No more Tartarus either- instead of the one ginormous dungeon to explore in like in P3, you get around 6-7 smaller dungeons with roughly 10 floors each in P4. The fatigue system's been taken off, so you have more time to explore the dungeons, but HP/SP isn't recovered when you teleport back into the rest area, so conserving SP is more important this time around. Instead of the three social stats you needed to raise in P3, you have five (Courage, Intelligence, Expression, Diligence, Understanding) to raise now, and raising them actually reap more rewards this time- certain responses when speaking to other characters are only useable at a certain level of a certain stat, or pay for jobs can vary depending on your level of Diligence or Understanding.
The story's a big one up too compared to the third. I love the cast. Their social link scenarios are so much more 'real', or their age now, as opposed to those in P3. They're a quirkier lot now too- I'll spare the spoilers, but I have to say I absolutely loved Kanji and Naoto.
So, anyone else have this game? I'm at 12/24 right now on my way to face the last boss, but I'm holding out til the last week of the year because I'm only at like 64% of my Persona compendium and I think I only maxed out like 6-7 of my Social Links. Baww. I'll do a second cycle I guess, but I feel like I'm seriously missing out on some kick-ass Persona.
Short and sweet, Persona 4 cashes in on everything people loved about Persona 3, refines them and new treats are thrown in for good measure. It's an awesome game, and if you loved the previous game you owe it to yourself to grab a copy of this one.
Of the more notable features, you can give direct commands to your party now. Also, by pressing the square button you get a list of local areas in the map you can teleport instantly to. No more walking around unnecessarily. No more Tartarus either- instead of the one ginormous dungeon to explore in like in P3, you get around 6-7 smaller dungeons with roughly 10 floors each in P4. The fatigue system's been taken off, so you have more time to explore the dungeons, but HP/SP isn't recovered when you teleport back into the rest area, so conserving SP is more important this time around. Instead of the three social stats you needed to raise in P3, you have five (Courage, Intelligence, Expression, Diligence, Understanding) to raise now, and raising them actually reap more rewards this time- certain responses when speaking to other characters are only useable at a certain level of a certain stat, or pay for jobs can vary depending on your level of Diligence or Understanding.
The story's a big one up too compared to the third. I love the cast. Their social link scenarios are so much more 'real', or their age now, as opposed to those in P3. They're a quirkier lot now too- I'll spare the spoilers, but I have to say I absolutely loved Kanji and Naoto.
So, anyone else have this game? I'm at 12/24 right now on my way to face the last boss, but I'm holding out til the last week of the year because I'm only at like 64% of my Persona compendium and I think I only maxed out like 6-7 of my Social Links. Baww. I'll do a second cycle I guess, but I feel like I'm seriously missing out on some kick-ass Persona.